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STEREOTYPING.

Patented Oct. 9, 18.88.

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LUOIUS GOSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STEREOTYPING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,574, dated October 9, 1888.

Application filed January 5, 1888. Serial No. 259,861. (No model.)

'To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUOIUS Goss, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stereotyping, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists in stereotyped electroplated or otherwise cast, plated, or molded illustrated plates for ready-print newspaper or other printed matter, so that the pages may be packed and shipped in single, double, or triple column plates, and the illustrations or engravings afterward cut apart from the columns in which they are cast, plated, or molded and rearranged and readjusted in making up in such a manner as to produce,

I without necessitating the displacement of the other matter of the page, a picture extending transversely across two or more columns of the page and occupying the same space and general position in the columns as before readjustment.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a stereotyped plate made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the arrangement of the plate when made up for printing.

In carrying my invention into effect Istereotype the picture in detached parts or seetions-three in this instance. (Shown in the drawings, and marked A B 0.) These are each a column in width and as long as the subject illustrated requires. The engravings are arranged for stereotyping among the columns of printed matter at any suitable position. The sections A and G are to occupy the same position in making up that they occupy in the stereotype-plate. The section B is made the width of a single columnand the length of three columns, and in making up is to be arranged between and in connection with the two blocks A G and transversely to the columns D D D" of reading-matter. After the casing is removed from the casting-box the columns are cut apart in the direction of their length. The column D is cut transversely at the top of the picture 0, separating from the column the block a of reading-matter. The column D is cut transversely at the top and bottom of the picture B, detaching said picture from the column. The column 1) is cut transversely at the bottom, of the picture A to detach the block a of reading-matter. In making up, the picture B is arranged transversely to the columns, as shown in Fig. 2, its endsjoining the ends ofthe picture-sectionsA 0, making the complete composition or group picture running over all three sections and occupying three columns, and its ends occupying the spaces in columns D D made on the removal of the blocks a a, and these latter in making up occupy the space formed in column D by the reversing of the section B. In this manner it will be seen that by thus arranging and grouping one or more engravings and one or more portions of detached printed matter in stereotyped plates of ready-printed news paper or other printed matter the pages may be packed and shipped in single, double, or triple column plates, and the engraving or engravings and portion or portions of detached print afterward cut apart from the columns in which they are cast and rearranged and readjusted in making up in such'a manner as to present a picture, single or grouped, eXtending transversely across two or more columns of the page, and to restore the detached print to its proper place on the page, the entire group of picture or pictures and transferred print occupying the same space and general position in the columns as before readjustment, without the necessity of displacement or rearrangement of the balance of the page, except in certain cases where a slight loss of space is to be made up by the insertion of leads.

The blocks may be variously arranged in the casting, according to the character of the composite picture, so that, when detached and rearranged, the picture may have any desired locality on the page; and my invention may be practiced in stereotyping, electroplating, molding, or other method of reproduction from the type and cuts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The method herein described of casting and cutting illustrated stereotyped and other i the side columns adjacent to the picture-see plates,which consists in casting the picture in I tion to form spaces for the arrangement of the re separated sections, each occupying a part of a said section of the picture transversely to the different column, onesection being longer than columns, substantially as described. 5 the width of a column and cast lengthwise of LUGIUS GOSS.

the column, then cutting the plate into separate columns, detaching the longitudinallyarranged pieturesection, and then separating \V ituesses:

H. A. Wnsr, EDGAR TATE. 

